Stovepipe-anchor.



W. MUNSTERMANN.

STOVEPIPE ANCHOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. H. 1918 Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

TEE]- mvewtoz WMMMWM WILLIAM MUNSTERMANN, OF ANTELOPE, KANSAS.

STOVEPIPE-ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

Application filed March 11, 1918. Serial No. 221,785.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MUNSTER- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Antelope, in the county of Marion and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stovepipe-Anchors; and I do declare the following to'be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention aims to girovide a sim le and inexpensive, yet an e cient means or so anchoring stope pipes as to prevent them from slipping from the chimney hole or thimble; and with this general object in view, the invention is constructed as herein described and claimed, and shown in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure l is a sectional view showing the invention applied; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the anchor bar.

In the drawing above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates a stove pipe elbow fitting into a thimble 2 of a chimney 3, the invention being shown for securing said elbow in place although it is equally well adapted for anchoring a straightsection of plpe.

An anchor bar 4 of novel construction is provided, said bar having a bowed body portion 5 equal in length to the diameter of the thimble 2 and located diametrically therein, the ends of said bar being provided with angular eats. To form these seats, the ends of bar 4 are bent laterally in the same direction as seen at 6 to engage the inner side of the thimble and then extend laterally outward in opposite directions to form lined fingers 7 to engage the inner side of the chimney 3 at opposite sides of the thimble.

A wire 8 is passed at its center around the angular center 9 of the bar 4 and is passed through the pipe and connected at its ends by twisting or in any other suitable manner. The mode of applying the wire 8 shown is preferable, but it could well be used in any appropriate way. In all cases, the wire is held against shifting along the bar 4 by the seat 9 and so ties the pipe to said bar as to prevent any possibility of the former slipping from the thimble.

The device is extremely simple and inexpensive yet is highly eflicient and for these reasons the exact construction shown is preferable, but it is to be understood that minor changes in size and shape which do not affeet the spirit of the invention, may well be made.

I claim:

In combination with a chimney having a stove pipe hole and a stove pipe extending into said hole, a metal rod bent at its center to dispose its two halves at a wide obtuse angle to each other, the body of said rod extending diametrically across said stove pipe hole and having its ends bent laterally in the same direction into parallel relation to form arms which contact with the wall of the hole, the free ends of said arms being bent laterally outward at right angles to form stops which abut the inner side of the chimney, and a tie wire secured to said pipe at one end and to the center of said rod at its other end, the angular portion between the two halves of the rod forming a seat to center said wire.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 7

WILLIAM MUN STERMANN.

Witnesses:

HENRY J. TIEMELER, A. F. HOLMGREN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

